Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery.
A word in earnest is as good as a speech.
Injustice breeds injustice
Accidents will occur in the best regulated families
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another
Reflect on your present blessings, of which every man has many; not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some
The sun does not shine upon this fair earth to meet frowning eyes, depend upon it.
Treachery don't come natural to beaming youth; but trust and pity, love and constancy,--they do, thank God!
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Dame Bradbury's School Theatre, Saffron Walden, UK
Fri, 23rd March 2012 - Fri, 23rd March 2012
Charles Dickens was 'brimful of letters' as he told a friend. He wrote some 14,000 of them. To celebrate his bicentenary, Jenny Hartley, Professor of Literature at Roehampton University has chosen some 450 of them which give the best essence of the Dickens.
